Age of Encounter
This term could be defined as the widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, disease, and ideas which began between the two hemispheres following Christopher Columbus and other European’s exploration of the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
At the New England colonies' town meetings colonists practiced ________________-style direct democracy.
What is Athenian?
The general in command of the Continental Army.
What is George Washington?
List each branch of government (and know the checks and balances between them) as established by the constitution.
What are judicial, legislative, and executive?
This purchase allowed the U.S. to explore and map newly acquired land and search for a Northwest Passage
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This passage of the trade route brought captured and enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
What is the middle passage?
Governor of the Plymouth Colony in 1621.
Who is William Bradford?
The location of the first shots fired of the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This agreement on legislative representation included a bicameral legislature and was made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is the Great Compromise?
The U.S. president during the War of 1812.
Who is James Madison?
The American Constitution and the Iroquis Confedarcy's founding constitution both established a confederation with representatives.
What is the Great Law of Peace?
Philadelphia founder who signed a peace treaty with the indigenous Lenape people.
Who is William Penn?
In October 1781, Lord Cornwallis surrendered to the Continental Army after the Battle of____
What is Yorktown?
This first failed attempt at a constitution established a unicameral Congress led by a “presiding officer”.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This presidentially named doctrine was crafted to warn European nations against further colonization in the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Spanish missionary who wrote about conquistadors
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?
A man named Nathaniel ___________ helped lead to ___________'s Rebellion because he and his cohorts felt the rule against trading with the Indians was being broken by the governor and others.
What is Bacon?
• Closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for destroyed tea.
• Revoked Massachusetts' charter
• Allowed the Royal governor to order trials of accused to take place in Great Britain
• Allowed British troops to be housed in private buildings
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What are Intolerable Acts?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This British action was a major cause of the War of 1812 because it directly affected American ships and sailors
What is the impressment of American sailors into the British navy?
The economic theory that a country should export more than it imports which “justified” colonization and exploitation. A country gains power by building up its wealth – specifically gold & silver
What is mercantilism?
A religious revival in all Thirteen Colonies.
What is the Great Awakening?
Thomas Jefferson writes of injuries such as unfair taxes and British army violence against colonists in this founding document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
List 5 of the 10 amendments from the Bill of Rights.
President Andrew Jackson ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling in Worcester v. Georgia leading to the___________.
What is the Indian Removal Act?